Guess what Trufflers! It’s that time of year again and we have a busy week ahead for Oscars! We have been getting reports from agencies, pr firms, friends, family and even the City of Los Angeles about worthy celebrations going on throughout the week. We thought it apt to take pay a little homage to all the best Oscar parties thrown every season …
Los Angeles Most Notorious Oscar Parties & Their Hosts:
1. Vanity Fair - The magazine hosts an annual Oscar Viewing & After party on Sunday – historically at the old Morton’s (now Cecconi’s) and has been at Jeff Klien’s hotel The Sunset Towers for the last 3 years. Read our inside coverage from last year here: [Personal notes from the Vanity Fair Oscar soiree]
2. Bryan Lourd - CAA’s Bryan Lourd hosts an annual Oscar party chez lui
3. Ari Emanuel - The head of William Morris Endeavor goes head to head with CAA’s Bryan Lourd the Friday before the Oscars with his Oscar party now in it’s 2nd year. The battle of CAA vs. WME is always a Truffle must.
4. Madonna and Demi Moore - Madonna and Demi Moore have been throwing the coolest Oscar after party EVER at Guy Oseary’s house a couple years in a row now … Prince usually performs.
5. Dani Janssen – Dani Janssen’s Oscar after party on Sunday, so the story goes, gets a full celeb turn out and each person gets a personalized doggie bag of Dani’s infamous cooking to take with them for rest of the night ahead of party hopping.
6. Jeffrey Katzenberg - DreamWorks CEO hosts the Annual “Night Before” Party held at the hotel pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel which benefits the Motion Picture and Television Fund where Jeffrey is the Chairman. (Jeff also throws an Emmy’s equivalent called “The Evening Before” which was held outside CAA in Century this past Emmy’s).
6. Nic Beggruen - Nic the Billionaire hosts an annual pre Oscar party at the Chateau each year with the usual L.A. suspects who go out and international travelers. Nadine Johnson was historically on riff raff patrol.
7. Patrick Whitesell – WME’s Patrick Whitesell use to throw his party with Brent Bolthouse in that round house up up up up on Fairfax … it was known as the “Vanity Fair after party” … in addition to Patrick’s and Ari’s parties this year, WME is also hosting a soiree at a certain Bungalow 1 that sounds rather special.
8. Elton John & his man David Furnish - the most famous Oscar party is a fun viewing party if you are not nominated but still want to be in the element. It is at the Pacific Design Center ever year and benefits his charity – the Elton John Foundation.
9. Norby Walters – the man behind the Annual Night of 100 Stars at the Beverly Hills Hotel – if you are not at the Oscars and you are not at Elton’s John’s viewing party and your name is Steven Spielberg, you are here.
10. The Los Angeles Mayor & The Hollywood Reporter – last year this party was a bit of a bust. Protestors from the City rallied outside Villarigosa’s Hancock Park home and streets were shut off for 6 blocks in all directors. It was all quite the scene.
12. Alex Hitz – Annual Oscar Eve dinner fete prepared by his truly (a Cordon Bleu trained chef tho he learned his best stuff from his mother’s cook Dorothy growing up in the South) is an intimate affair for Beverly Hills socials who are friends with the Coca Cola hier, including Nancy Reagan in past years.
13. Global Green – Annual Oscar Party historically thrown the Friday before the Oscars and offered Prius transport to celebs has moved to Wednesday and swapped hybrids for Volts.
14. Harvery Weinstein – Annual party at Soho house on Oscar eve – this year he is also having a special dinner with Dior during the week.
15. Barry Diller – Barry and Diane Von Furstenberg always host an annual day party before the Oscars – c’est tres chic.
Other interesting Oscar activities this week:
- Relativity Media + The Fighter + Interview mag + Hugo Boss
- PC Valmorbida + PRISM gallery
- Rolling Stone mag + The Roots
- Christie’s auction + Art of Elysium
- New Tom Ford store opening on Rodeo Drive
- Chanel dinner at Madeo’s
- Wendy Stark & Graydon Carter hosts opening of the new “Stark Bar / Ray’s Restaurant” at LACMA
- The Independent Spirits Awards back at the beach (remember last year year when they were randomly at L.A. Live?)
- ICM party
- QVC annual Oscar party at Four Seasons
- InStyle Magazine viewing party (downstairs at Boa)
- Mercedez Bens viewing party (upstairs at Soho)
- Fox Searchlight at Myhouse (huh, Myhouse? what, why?) annual viewing and after party
- Vanity Fair Parlous at Palihouse
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PS – In the 2 years that we have been doing The Daily Truffle and writing out our party lists, EVER MAJOR OUTLET in town has started doing it too. We pride ourselves on not mentioning address of people’s homes and encourage all you others to do the same.
